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Water of Leith 27 Aug 2013 | 05:56 pm
Two photos of Colinton weir on the Water of Leith taken from underneath the footbridge, an area which isn't normally accessible, but the water is low at the moment. I've noticed more cuckoo pint than...
Storing plastic bags 26 Aug 2013 | 11:37 pm
How ever careful you are in refusing plastic carrier bags (carrying a canvas tote bag in your handbag is a great way to make sure you don't pick up plastic bags) and trying to avoid plastic produce ba...
Poetry in the branches of revolutionary trees 26 Aug 2013 | 02:37 am
Normally I go to at least a few events during the Edinburgh Festival season, but this year I hadn't gone to anything. Today though I won a ticket to an evening of Egyptian poetry and music at Edinburg...
Wester Craiglockart Hill 24 Aug 2013 | 06:57 pm
I've blogged several times about Easter Craiglockart Hill (for example read the first few posts here) but today was, unbelievably, the first time Crafty Green Boyfriend and I have walked up Wester Cra...
Spoonbills 23 Aug 2013 | 06:35 pm
Lothian Birding announced on Twitter this morning that a spoonbill had been seen at Musselburgh. This is even more exciting than the avocets that I saw at Musselburgh a couple of months ago. The avoce...
The Seventh Crane by Birgitte Rasine 22 Aug 2013 | 04:31 pm
The Seventh Crane is a beautiful fable about the relationships between humans and nature and growing up into your true self. An unnamed young girl encounters a whooping crane on a beach on a family h...
Windowsill Garden - update 21 Aug 2013 | 09:04 pm
We've grown tomatoes for several years now and have nad good crops every year. This year, one of our tomato plants is producing full size tomatoes rather than the cherry tomatoes we nromally get. And...
Silverknowes - Cramond 20 Aug 2013 | 07:09 pm
The best thing about going to the dentist for me is that the surgery is very near Silverknowes so after every appointment I walk down this road to the front at Silverknowes and along to Cramond. Ther...
Late summer, Colinton Dell 19 Aug 2013 | 08:24 pm
This is a view of one of the wildflower meadows that the Water of Leith Conservation Trust has planted along the shores of the river. This one is on the site of the old Bogs Mill. The old mill house, ...
The Burrowers 17 Aug 2013 | 04:20 pm
I watch little TV apart from nature programmes, The Simpsons and tennis from Wimbledon. But for all those nature programmes I almost never write about them here! However, given the number of bunny blo...
